When Jeni Rae Duschak was a freshman at Cedar Crest College, she got involved in the MathConn program which promotes math and science programs for girls.

She was so inspired she wrote a children’s play, “Yes We Did,” which features five women from history who talk about their contributions in math, science and education.

Duschak will present a free premiere of the show at 1, 3:30 and 6 p.m. Saturday in the children’s book department of the Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem.

“I felt that it was important to empower young women to pursue careers in mathematics and science,” she says. “I wanted to introduce girls to positive female role models that would show them that women can have successful careers in these fields, and that there is nothing unattractive or unfeminine about a woman who is gifted in the sciences.”

The half-hour show features a modern-day father who thinks the sciences aren’t for girls until he gets a visit from some famous women, including Hypatia of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, philosopher and astronomer; Sophie Germain, a French mathematician and physicist, Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of nursing; Emmy Noether, a Jewish woman living during the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany whose work in Theoretical Physics was admired by Albert Einstein and Grace Hopper, a woman who was a pioneer in the field of Computer Programming.

Duschak says she wants to encourage young women to follow their dreams by showing that throughout time women have always persevered.

The show stars Jane Horvath, Kimberly Tassinaro, Chris West, Sara Domonkos, and Kristy Houston. Duschak plans to develop the show for traveling productions for schools and other organizations.